Question

Hopefully a quick python question here…

import plistlib

pl = plistlib.readPlist('/Users/name/Documents/some.plist')

print(pl[0]['keyA'] , pl[0]['keyD'] , pl[0]['keyG'])

how would I write a for loop or a list function that would cycle through a dictionary printing the values to certain keys.

The main dictionary will have say 30 entries (dictionaries in the dictionary) with each one having about 40 keys within.)

Example:

print(pl[0]['keyA'] , pl[0]['keyD'] , pl[0]['keyG'])
print(pl[1]['keyA'] , pl[1]['keyD'] , pl[1]['keyG'])
print(pl[2]['keyA'] , pl[2]['keyD'] , pl[2]['keyG'])
print(pl[n]['keyA'] , pl[n]['keyD'] , pl[n]['keyG'])

where pl is the main dictionary and then 0 - n refer to the dictionaries within the dictionary.

I hope this makes sense

Answer 1

Just write it! :p

for sub_dict in pl.values():
    print sub_dict['keyA'], sub_dict['keyD'], sub_dict['keyG']

(.values() says to iterate over the values of the dictionary, since normally iterating over a dictionary goes through its keys. In Python 2 use .itervalues() instead.)